Simon Willison’s Weblog

Importing your social network from other sites. Dopplr now does this from GMail, Twitter, vCard or hCard and XFN. I’m convinced that contact import is a killer app for OpenID.

Posted 26th June 2007 at 1:46 am

Recent articles

ChatGPT agent's user-agent - 4th August 2025
The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences - 3rd August 2025
Reverse engineering some updates to Claude - 31st July 2025

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